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Mahatma Gandhi - (October 2, 1869 - January 30, 1948); Indian political leader, social reformer, and advocate of nonviolent resistance. Biography
Herbert Bayard Swope (1882 - 1958) American editor, journalist.
He was the first and three-time recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Reporting. He is also credited with coining the phrase "Cold War"
Mark Twain (November 30 1835 - April 21, 1910). Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by his pen name, Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, publisher, and lecturer. Biography
Martin Luther King Jr. - (1929 - 1968) American Christian minister, activist and leader in the Civil Rights Movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968.
Eleanor Roosevelt (October 11 1884 - November 7 1962) - First Lady, Humanitarian, and Champion of Human Rights. Biography
James Arthur Baldwin (1924 –1987) - American writer, orator and activist.
As a writer, he garnered acclaim across various mediums, including essays, novels, plays, and poems. His first novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain, was published in 1953; decades later, Time magazine included the novel on its list of the 100 best English-language novels released from 1923 to 2005. His first essay collection, Notes of a Native Son, was published in 1955. Baldwin was also a well-known, and controversial, public figure, especially during the civil rights movement in the United States.
Aldous Leonard Huxley ~ (1894 -1963) Prolific English writer, novelist, philosopher, poet and pacifist. He authored nearly 50 books, including Brave New World (1932) and his final novel, Island (1962). When he was 16, he suffered an eye infection that left him nearly blind for almost two years. His sight was so compromised that he learned to read in Braille. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature nine times. Biography
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